Planning a surprise trip for someone is an exciting and fun way to integrate travel into your life. Finding any excuse, like a birthday or a promotion, is a great excuse to plan a surprise trip and celebrate whatever occasion it happens to be. A few years ago we...

If 2017 can be defined, it can be defined as one of the most adventurous years of my life to date. While travel didn’t pick-up until March, all bets were off at that point. I thought it would be fun to re-cap our year of Adventure Travel in numbers and sharing a...

Perhaps you’ve resolved to be more adventurous in the New Year. To take risks and break out of your routine. You decided that you needed to shake things up. But where to start? Here are some ideas to tip the scales and get you living more adventurously this year....

If you’re looking for things to do in San Francisco, then you’ve found a great starting point to plan your trip! I’m up in the Bay area about once a month for work, sometimes I have the opportunity to stay in San Francisco. I’ve also...

Visiting Tokyo, Japan was nothing short of a whirlwind. I had only two days to explore the vast metropolis and barely scratched the surface of the amazing city. From streets lined with people walking shoulder to shoulder to quiet refuges tucked off the beaten path,...

An Instagram friend (shout out to @arsalanxx) recently asked me for suggestions for things to do in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco. He is visiting each city for the first-time, so I figured a Weekend Getaway post for things to do in Los Angeles (other cities...

About Me

Hi! I’m Daina, a Chicago native turned Southern Californian. I didn’t quit my job to travel, but my limited vacation days can’t stop me from finding adventures both abroad and close to home. Adventure is out there, you just have to know where to look.

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